Bringing some shocking pranks to the Cultivation World

After about two or three shichen, night had already enveloped the entire mountain peak. By this time, the campfire had been extinguished, and the Horse Bandits' Xu Sheng, with a steel knife in hand, paced slowly around the campsite. Meanwhile, the other bandits began to rest, leaving only one person to watch over the students who had succumbed to exhaustion and fallen asleep.

Flexing his wrists, Zhou Li began to move his body slowly in the trees. The poison scripture he studied, known as the Ten Thousand Spiders Poison Scripture, allowed him not only to concoct various poisons but also to mimic abilities from spiders.

For example, the ability he was mimicking now came from a type of venomous creature known as the Helan Spider from the northern borders. This creature could move silently and invisibly through the woods, injecting its toxin into its desired target in an incredibly unnoticeable manner.

Of course, mimicry does not mean transformation. The Ghost Face Spider can inject poison because it has a unique hollow pillar organ in its abdomen, allowing it to eject a fine threadlike stream of venom.

Humans cannot, really cannot.

In the forest, a man whose lower half was hidden by tree leaves crawled secretly through the dense brush, and before long, he sneaked into the area where the gang of bandits stored their food and water.

After confirming that no one was around, Zhou Li's hands trembled, and a thin thread stuck to a tree branch. This thread seemed as white and delicate as silk, but it effortlessly suspended Zhou Li in mid-air. Then, he slowly moved downwards in an upside-down hanging posture.

Stare.

The moment he emerged from the thick leaves in mid-air, Zhou Li's hair stood on end and his pupils constricted. Because right below him, the girl with snow-white hair was staring with her clear, bright eyes, as blue as lapis lazuli, standing atop a sack of grain, motionless, looking at him with some surprise, yet without the contempt or fear one might have upon seeing a pervert.

When did she arrive!?

Zhou Li's inner alarm bells rang furiously; he had not expected to be discovered on his very first stealthy operation as a spider vigilante. On any other day, he would have sought the best solution, like knocking out the other party or escaping immediately, but...

Feeling the cool breeze of the dense forest on his naked, robust body, Zhou Li stiffened in mid-air, neither able to run nor fight.

Clearly, the girl before him was also intent on dealing with the bandits, making it certain that Zhou Li could not simply knock her out with a punch. Therefore, he could only helplessly shake his head at the snow-haired girl, his face expressing a plea for understanding.

The snow-haired girl looked at the man suspended by a white thread from the forest, his body bare, and her frosty little face showed no surprise or fear.

She merely observed Zhou Li in silence, her eyes seemingly scrutinizing him. After a moment, she nodded slightly, a look of approval appearing on her delicate face.

Zhou Li did not speak, as the bandits were patrolling not too far away, and making a sound could easily spoil everything. Having detected that she was someone with an extremely high artistic talent who could appreciate his physique, Zhou Li dropped the previous pleading expression and stretched out his hand contentedly, giving her a thumbs up.

Of course, the two had not forgotten their current situation. The snow-haired girl glanced at Zhou Li and pointed to a nearby sack, making a gesture of putting something inside.

Obviously, the ideas of Zhou Li, the spider avenger, and the liberated girl coincided perfectly; both intended to poison the bandits' food to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Seeing this, Zhou Li no longer hid his intentions. After all, his Spirit Qi had almost fully recovered, and transforming into a Bidiao again would not be difficult.

Therefore, having made up his mind, Zhou Li directly took out a Jade Bottle and handed it to the girl before him, signalling that he was also planning to commit this nefarious act.

The girl accepted the Jade Bottle with interest, opened the lid, and carefully sniffed at the mouth of the bottle after fanning it with her hand. A moment later, she looked at Zhou Li, nodded in satisfaction, yet also shook her head.

Just when Zhou Li was puzzled, the girl took out a small colored glaze bottle from her bosom and handed it to Zhou Li. In that instant, Zhou Li saw a sentence on the girl's proud yet somewhat expectant expression.

"Big brother, use mine, it's potent."

With a sniff, Zhou Li determined that the poison in this small bottle was far more treacherous than his own. Zhou Li had concocted a type of poison called "Hundred Loosening," which, once ingested, caused violent diarrhea leading to death. It was especially effective against Spirit Qi Masters of the third and fourth realms.

The "Reverse Walking Powder" the silver-haired girl possessed was even more heavyweight. If consumed, it would cause one's Spirit Qi to flow in reverse and disrupt their meridians, with rupture being a light symptom and a slightly more severe one leading to explosive death. Even if one was lucky enough to survive, forget about drawing a sword and mounting a horse, even indulging in solitary nighttime activities would become incredibly challenging.

Thinking about how inhumane and against the natural order the medicine in his hands was, Zhou Li found the girl before him more and more agreeable.

As the old saying goes, not stabbing your enemy when they're down is bullshit; this kind of approach that turns one to ash is the real deal. Therefore, Zhou Li put away his jade bottle and nodded in approval at the girl.

As the odorless and tasteless poison blended into the horse bandits' food, the girl gave Zhou Li a salute and then quietly returned to the side of the cage. She reached out her hand, silently bent the iron bars on the back of the cage, deftly slipped inside, and quietly bent the bars back into place.

At this time, the students in the cage seemed to have already fallen into a deep sleep. Of course, under these conditions, it was hard for anyone to sleep. Zhou Li figured the silver-haired girl must have used some tricks to put them to sleep.

Of course, Zhou Li was happy to see this. Judging by his current attire, he probably wasn't quite suited to meet with those refined scholars. To be frank and open in Da Ming, there was really no such etiquette of honest encounters.

Reaching out, the web he had prepared stuck to a tree branch in mid-air. With a slight exertion of force, Zhou Li disappeared into the dense forest. What followed was patient waiting.

The next day, early morning.

"One incense stick's time, finish eating and we leave."

Standing up, his tiger-like eyes swirling with Spirit Qi, a man named Xu Sheng rose to his feet—his deep green short coat bulged with muscle.

He walked over to the large pot, unhygienically stirred within it with his finger, and after a smear of green Spirit Qi retracted from the porridge, Xu Sheng nodded at the people behind him, signaling they could start eating.

This, was Zhou Li's cunning.

According to normal thinking, to poison someone, you would slip it into their food. Since the poison was odorless and tasteless, eating it before or after meals wasn't a big deal.

But Zhou Li could tell that this bandit leader named Xu Sheng was no ordinary thief. His level of caution was far above others, and he would certainly scrutinize any unattended food for poison.

Therefore, Zhou Li placed the poison in a place no one would expect.

Watching Xu Sheng pick up a wooden bowl and fill it with a full bowl of rice porridge, Zhou Li smiled with satisfaction from the tree.

I knew you rough men wouldn't use a spoon to drink porridge.

The place where Zhou Li had applied the poison was on their wooden bowls.